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Outlook vs Null - What's the difference?

outlook | null |

As nouns the difference between outlook and null

is that outlook is a place from which something can be viewed while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb outlook

is to face down; to outstare.

outlook

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place from which something can be viewed.
  • Perched on the edge of the cliff was a hidden outlook .
  • The view from such a place.
  • An attitude or point of view.
  • He has a positive outlook on life.
  • Expectation for the future.
  • The outlook for temperature rises is worrying.

    Synonyms

    * (place from which something can be viewed ): * (view from such a place ): * (attitude, point of view ): attitude, opinion, point of view, viewpoint * (expectation for the future ): expectation, prognosis

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To face down; to outstare.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To outlook conquest, and to win renown.
  • To inspect throughly; to select.
  • (Cotton)

    Anagrams

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----